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Re: What do you call the triangle-twist-open thingie?
Subject:Re: What do you call the triangle-twist-open thingie? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 8 Dec 2015 12:09:59 -0800
Even if there's an animation, the user just clicks, so "twist" is a
confusing verb.
In audio and video software the UIs sometimes have virtual knobs that
you turn by clicking and dragging.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Unless it's animated, which can be done.
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The user clicks a â and it's replaced by a â (or vice-versa to
>> collapse). There's no twisting or twirling.
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